Responsible Leadership

Leaders know
the way, go the
way & show the way.

The True North Leadership Group is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, NGOs and communities understand and integrate responsible leadership at all levels. We believe everyone has the potential for leadership.

Years of Practice
19
Client Organizations
6
Core Services
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True North Leadership Group team
Our Mission

We build leaders to
change the world

The True North Leadership Group is dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, NGOs and communities understand and integrate responsible leadership at all levels. We believe that everyone has the potential for leadership, and that individual fulfillment and organizational survival hinge on the ability to tap this potential.

We fulfill our mission through leadership coaching, training, education, consulting and research into both the nature of responsible leadership and the methods by which it is most effectively developed.

Not Born — DevelopedLeadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and deliberate, ongoing development.
Bespoke ApproachWe lean into building custom approaches based on the particular needs of each organization — no one-size-fits-all playbooks.
Enabling TeamThe TNLG Enablement Team is a dedicated group of seasoned professionals committed to your transformative leadership journey.
The Enablement Team

Meet the people
who drive performance

Seasoned professionals committed to transformative leadership and lasting impact.

Fredrick Russell
Fredrick A. Russell
Principal, TNLG
Leadership transformation consultant and founder driving the mission to build leaders who change the world, not just the company.
Bruce Seawood
Bruce Seawood
Leadership Transformation Consultant
Brings deep expertise in executive coaching and organizational development to help leaders unlock their full potential.
Anita Robinson
Anita Robinson
Leadership Transformation Consultant
Specializes in helping organizations develop inclusive, high-performing cultures anchored in responsible leadership principles.
What We Do

Our services

Because no two organizations are alike, we offer custom approaches based on proven methodologies.

01

Leadership Design & Development

In direct consultation with your organization, we design, develop and facilitate bespoke leadership trainings that address your team's specific development needs and deliver content that is both engaging and highly applicable to your context.

02

Strategy Facilitation

You're ready to build a resilient, highly functional organization. It's time for clarity, accountability and a plan to achieve your business goals. We help you get there — coupling strategy planning with strategy management.

03

Executive Leadership Coaching

Everyone's coaching journey is different. Our focus is on co-creating quality conversations that help clients zero in on career developmental needs and achieve their goals. We modify as we go to ensure personal and professional coaching goals are met.

04

High Performance Cohesive Teams

Cohesive teams are the ultimate competitive advantage — at their best when members Trust one another, engage in Conflict around ideas, Commit to decisions, hold each other Accountable and focus on collective Results.

05

Change Management

Whether enterprise-wide or internal micro-changes, we help you design, execute and facilitate a viable change management process — always keeping the primacy of the people side of change front and center.

06

Internal Corporate Conflict Communication

Let us help you work through sticky areas in interpersonal relationships among leaders. The key is pursuing the ways and means to get to Yes — turning conflict into productive dialogue.

Leadership Methods

Proven frameworks for
lasting transformation

We provide leadership coaching, training, education, consulting and research into both the nature of responsible leadership and the methods by which it is most effectively developed.

Executive Coaching
Custom Curriculum
Strategy Facilitation
Five Behaviors
Assessments

Executive Leadership Coaching

The True North Leadership Group works with individual clients in a coaching capacity to develop targeted skills, a positive outlook, a personal vision for one's life and goal setting techniques.

  • Core Leadership Skills development
  • A Positive and Inquisitive Outlook
  • A Positive and Inspiring Vision for One's Future
  • A Goal Setting Regimen to Practice Skills and Realize Vision
  • Regular In-depth Focus on Key Challenges
  • 360-Degree Feedback
  • Facilitated Meetings with Supervisor and Key Direct Reports (by request)
  • Facilitated Meetings with the Leader's Team to Raise Team Performance
Executive Coaching

Customized Leadership Development Curriculum

True North Leadership does not take a one-size-fits-all approach. While there are common themes relative to leadership training, we lean into building a custom approach based on the particular needs of each organization.

Our Process:

1
Gather DataUnderstand the current leadership culture and organizational environment.
2
Meet with Senior LeadershipDevelop personal and team goals for the training program.
3
Customize Training & CoachingIntroduce and establish concepts tailored to your specific context.
4
Follow-up AssessmentsAt six-month and one-year completion points to measure and sustain growth.
Leadership curriculum

Strategy Facilitation & Management

TNLG provides skilled facilitation for organizations engaged in comprehensive Strategic Planning & Management. We believe it isn't enough to do strategy planning without coupling it with strategy management.

1
Analysis & AssessmentUnderstanding the current internal and external environments.
2
Strategy FormulationHigh-level strategy is developed and a basic organizational strategic plan is documented.
3
Strategy ExecutionHigh-level plan is transitioned into operational planning and action items.
4
Evaluation & SustainmentManagement phase — ongoing refinement and evaluation of performance.

TNLG faculty also speak at large leadership gatherings and company events on a wide range of topics. Submit a request for our menu of subject matters and custom talk options.

Strategy facilitation

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

Based on Patrick Lencioni's bestselling book, this model guides intact teams through a journey to improve in five areas key to productive team dynamics. Cohesive teams are the ultimate competitive advantage — so powerful and yet so rare.

1
Trust One AnotherMembers are comfortable being vulnerable with weaknesses, mistakes, and fears — open with one another without filters.
2
Engage in Conflict Around IdeasNot afraid to disagree, challenge, and question each other — in the spirit of finding the best answers and making great decisions.
3
Commit to DecisionsAll opinions and ideas are put on the table and considered, giving everyone confidence that no stone is left unturned.
4
Hold One Another AccountableDon't rely on the team leader as the primary source of accountability — the team holds itself to shared decisions and standards.
5
Focus on Collective ResultsSet aside individual needs to focus on achieving collective results — placing team success above personal agendas.
Cohesive teams

The Five Behaviors assessment includes a DiSC behavior-style profile for each team member — giving the whole team the ability to work together more effectively by understanding and appreciating each person's style.

Leadership Assessments

We facilitate a range of industry-leading assessment tools to provide leaders and teams with rich, actionable feedback. All trademarks are registered to the Center for Creative Leadership.

363-Everything DiSC

A comprehensive feedback instrument combining DiSC personality profile with 360-degree input — giving leaders a complete picture of how they show up and how to grow.

BENCHMARKS®

A comprehensive 360-degree assessment for middle to upper managers that measures 16 competencies critical for success, as well as five possible career derailers.

EXECUTIVE DIMENSIONS®

Addresses the specific leadership challenges faced by executives at the top levels in the organization — challenges that differ greatly from those at the middle management level.

PROSPECTOR®

Provides feedback in two areas: the skills most often found in successful leaders, and the learning behaviors needed to acquire those skills. Ideal for high-potentials, individual contributors, and managers.

SKILLSCOPE®

A 360-degree assessment that provides individuals with straightforward, practical feedback on job-related skills necessary for effectiveness in a management role. An ideal first step for organizations new to 360-degree feedback.

360-Degree Feedback

Facilitated multi-rater feedback processes designed to give leaders a clear and honest picture of their impact — from peers, direct reports, and supervisors alike.

Our Work

Organizations we've transformed

We help business leaders solve the problems they can't. We plot the course, roll up our sleeves, and work side-by-side to make your organization's vision a reality.

Maryland Dept. of Human Services

Designed, developed, launched and facilitated their first ever Executive Leadership Development Program, focusing on high potential leaders within the agency.

Black & Veatch

Led the process of developing a high-performing, cohesive team for the CIO/IT division of this global engineering, procurement, construction and consulting company.

BDO (Binder Dijker Otte)

Lent expertise to the international network of public accounting, tax and consulting firms to present the business case for building their IT Risk Advisory Services team.

AdventHealth (Great Lakes Region)

Designed, developed and facilitated a year-long Leadership Development Program for Director-level leaders in two Chicago-based hospitals — focused on leader agility in rapidly changing healthcare environments.

Ernst & Young

Served as executive coach for senior EY executives experiencing the "My Best" 360-type feedback process — delivering deep insights replicable through authentic leadership.

Social Security Administration

Selected from among several national leadership development companies to create and facilitate SSA's national leadership training, designed to be broad in reach but specific in focus.

CND Life Sciences

Engaged long-term with this fast-growing biotech company in team development, executive coaching for senior leaders, and designing both their Executive and Managerial Leadership Development Programs.

One Brooklyn Health System

Led leadership development for managers and teams in the newly created health system — heading the effort for the mental health team, the largest entity in the system.

Seventh-day Adventist Church (N. America)

As a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner led organization, designed and delivered the business case for a mammoth change management initiative — aligned with their unique culture and mission.

The Satcher Health Leadership Institute

Facilitated the Morehouse School of Medicine institute's embrace of a new collaborative work culture, fully integrating the essential behaviors of cohesive teams into the important work of this equity-focused organization.

Federally Employed Women (FEW)

Helped senior female leaders in the federal government develop critical skills for leading and managing productive conflict in teams embroiled in dysfunction.

National Black MBA Association

Designed and delivered training for the 16,000-member organization's "Gold Star" members — preparing them for Director-level and C-Suite responsibilities across corporations nationwide.

Bibliotheca Library Services

Conceived, designed, developed and facilitated a progressive manager development program for key senior managers across this global library technology company.

Versacare Foundation

Consulted on the design and led training for a movement of community-based leaders doing frontline work in disadvantaged communities — driving operational and programmatic capacity.

Indiana Toll Road Concession Company

Built the skillsets of managers responsible for keeping the Indiana East-West Toll Road operational, and provided extended leadership coaching in post-training follow-up.

College of Executive Coaching

Trains and coaches senior leaders and professionals from various industries in executive coaching, in connection with the premier executive coach training program for coaches with graduate degrees.

Union College

Led the senior team's summer retreat — assisting the President and Vice Presidents in building trust, embracing healthy conflict, growing commitment, and pursuing collective results.

Vir Biotechnology

Worked with the COO vertical team to strengthen team chemistry across an international, cross-functional team — positioning the company to embrace the people side of change in transitions.

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What People Say

Client testimonials

"The True North Leadership Group conducted a three-day offsite for our senior management team. The discussions were sometimes tense and uncomfortable, but the team from True North got our team to open up, conduct honest assessments and share team concerns. Their ability to navigate difficult team terrain is exceptional."

Michael Spann
Atlanta, GA

"The True North Leadership Group has transformed the trajectory of our organization in record time! As a result, we have gone from a downward spiral of dysfunction and mistrust into an environment that treasures dialog and the creation of synergy. Our time with TNLG was not only valuable, but it has positioned us as a more focused team with a clear vision for our future."

Andre Campbell
Tampa, FL

"My colleagues and I have truly benefitted from the expertise of the True North Leadership Group, especially their amazing ability to drill down, ascertain an organization's needs, and address them competently. True North's recommendations are timely, practical and effective. They are unparalleled in their coaching and consulting."

Courtney Ray, PhD
New York, NY

Ready to build leaders who change the world?

We are dedicated to helping individuals, organizations, NGOs, communities and our country understand and integrate responsible leadership at all levels. Let's start the conversation.

Atlanta, Georgia
leadership@thenorthgroup.org